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rev_number: 17
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creators_name: Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
creators_name: Zujovic, Jana
creators_name: Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.
creators_id: sotirios.tsaftaris@imtlucca.it
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title: Restoration of the cantilever bowing distortion in Atomic Force Microscopy
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
subjects: TK
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
abstract: Due to the mechanics of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM),
there is a curvature distortion (bowing effect) present in the acquired images. At present, flattening such images requires human intervention to manually segment object data from the background, which is time consuming and highly inaccurate. In this paper, an automated algorithm to flatten lines from AFM images is presented. The proposed method classifies the data into objects and background, and fits convex lines in an iterative fashion. Results on real images from DNA wrapped carbon nanotubes (DNACNTs) and synthetic experiments are presented, demonstrating the
effectiveness of the proposed algorithm in increasing the resolution of the surface topography. In addition a link between the flattening problem and MRI inhomogeneity (shading) is given and the proposed method is compared to an entropy based MRI inhomogeniety correction method.
date: 2008-08
event_title: 16th European signal processing conference
event_location: Lausanne, Switzerland
event_dates: August 2008
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
official_url: http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Eusipco/Eusipco2008/papers/1569105426.pdf
citation:   Tsaftaris, Sotirios A. and Zujovic, Jana and Katsaggelos, Aggelos K.  Restoration of the cantilever bowing distortion in Atomic Force Microscopy.  In: 16th European signal processing conference, August 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland         (2008)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/823/1/Tsaftaris_2008c.pdf